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Word: suchness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through such replicas, a student might experience for several years a natural, unexpurgated recreation of a past bibliographic environment. It is important that the library contain many more books than the student could have time to read. The message of this medium is that potential experience is richer than any...

Author: By Alexander Korns, | Title: In Education: Garbage, Trash, Junk | 12/8/1969 | See Source »

Old encyclopedias are intellectual treasure troves. Today one can buy second hand an 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, published in 1910, for $30-50. Written by a generation of gentlemen scholars that possessed a literary taste we have lost, it presents all of science, medicine, history, geography, and the...

Author: By Alexander Korns, | Title: In Education: Garbage, Trash, Junk | 12/8/1969 | See Source »

If "relevance" means something deeper than "newspaperliness," then it must mean potential for understanding and control over life. In this sense, a relevant arithmetic problem in an eighth grade text might be: The curves in Fig. 6.48 give the values of apparent crater diameter and depth in dry soil as...

Author: By Alexander Korns, | Title: In Education: Garbage, Trash, Junk | 12/8/1969 | See Source »

I will account such schools a success if and only if they also possess a competitive advantage over normal ones. In other words, if among their graduates are individuals who succeed better in public life as well as private, like Daniel Cohn-Bendit or like a twenty-three year old...

Author: By Alexander Korns, | Title: In Education: Garbage, Trash, Junk | 12/8/1969 | See Source »

A group of fifteen to twenty Moratorium staffers, veterans of the 1968 McCarthy and Kennedy Presidential campaigns, and representatives of liberal Massachusetts political organizations met last Thursday evening at the Institute of Polities to approve a letter inviting more than 300 anti-war leaders across the country to join in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Anti-War Activists Prepare National Peace Campaign for 1970 | 12/8/1969 | See Source »

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